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They can even give you Toxoplasmosis! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
by kyuudou 6y ago
They can even give you Toxoplasmosis!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoAnd there's a hypothesis that says toxoplasmosis can manipulate the behavior of their hosts to encourage risk-taking activities, including entrepreneurship, and cat owners are more likely to have an interest on startup companies [0][1]... Which brings us to Hacker News. Full Disclosure: I was a cat owner, but I'm on HN for its news and the forum, I'm not particularly interested in startup companies... [0] Toxoplasmosis has been linked to a higher likelihood of entrepreneurial behavior in people who get infected https://www.businessinsider.com/parasite-in-cat-poop-linked-to-entrepreneurial-behavior-2018-7?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/parasite-in-cat-poop-linked-... [1] There's a Really Weird Link Between Cats And Entrepreneurs https://www.sciencealert.com/toxoplasma-gondii-correlation-entrepreneurial-characteristics-global-economics https://www.sciencealert.com/toxoplasma-gondii-correlation-e...